HarmoniesWays to pair this color with others by where they sit on the color wheel: its opposite, shapes of two to four colors spaced around the wheel, its neighbors on either side, then the same hue lighter, darker, warmer, cooler and quieter. Each strip leads with this color. Tap one to open its kit built that way.
How It Reads#86BCDF set as type with the kit Chromary builds for it, both ways round, strongest first. Each is graded by APCA, the measure of how strongly text stands off its ground as eyes see it: Any text and Body text read at every size, Headlines and large text from about 24 pixels, Display sizes for names, logos and big headlines. Pairings too faint for text, or that collapse for red- or green-blind readers, are left out. The small numbers are the APCA score (Lc) and the WCAG 2 ratio, for anyone working to a standard.
Ink on #86BCDF#86BCDFSet in Ink on #86BCDF, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 64 · 9.6:1#86BCDF on Ink#86BCDFSet in #86BCDF on Ink, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 62 · 9.6:1Navy on #86BCDF#86BCDFSet in Navy on #86BCDF, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 7.1:1#86BCDF on Navy#86BCDFSet in #86BCDF on Navy, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 7.1:1#86BCDF on Gunmetal#86BCDFSet in #86BCDF on Gunmetal, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 54 · 5.5:1Gunmetal on #86BCDF#86BCDFSet in Gunmetal on #86BCDF, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 54 · 5.5:1
For every eye: Ink on #86BCDF
#86BCDFRed-blind (protanopia)#86BCDFGreen-blind (deuteranopia)#86BCDFBlue-blind (tritanopia)#86BCDFNo color (achromatopsia)